PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Goal Setting, Uptodate, Conversion Therapy
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Being overly-optimistic won"t prepare you for the possibility of encountering a barrier/challenge when you do encounter that challenge, you"re more likely to give up. Parents are taught how to employ the behavioural program as well, not just the therapist. The history of learned helplessness and how it looks like depression. Using learned helplessness to try and develop treatments for depression. Developing learned helplessness in interrogation methods can be torture-like. The kids didn"t really stutter to begin with. Functional assessment: examination of the relationship between (problem) behaviour and its antecedents and consequences. Various approaches can be taken: two key questions: Systematic manipulation of environmental events to experimentally test their role in maintaining problem behaviour. Important implication of functional analysis: treatment should be based on the function of a behaviour, not its form. Functional assessment procedures: functional analysis (experimental functional assessment) Low-frequency behaviours: hard to get enough observations across all the different conditions.
